[Info-vax] Newsreaders, was (long ago): Re: HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2011-12-29 18:08:
> In article<jdhmvt$ddm$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  writes:
>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2011-12-29 12:56:
>>> In article<9e7a3758-83c9-40e2-b119-5f8ad4ca0acc at m7g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, AEF<spamsink2001 at yahoo.com>   writes:
>>>> On Dec 27, 9:11=A0pm, Simon Clubley<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
>>>> Earth.UFP>   wrote:
>>>>> On 2011-12-27, Kenneth Fairfield<ken.fairfi... at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, December 23, 2011 7:13:13 PM UTC-8, AEF wrote:
>>>>>>> On Dec 22, 2:55 pm, Kenneth Fairfield<ken.fa... at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>>>>>> Sorry for all the typos&   wrong word errors in my last two
>>>>>>>> posts in spite of attempts to proof read beofre posting. =A0I *hate*
>>>>>>>> web text forms (I'm constrained...don't ask)!
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can you type your post in your favorite editor and then copy and paste
>>>>>>> it to your awful web form? That's what i do.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah, I may be forced to do that. =A0It's really best to let the
>>>>>> news reader (GG in this case) handle the reply so that text
>>>>>> gets "quoted", etc.
>>>>>
>>>>>> This one I'm doing with cut and paste into Wordpad. =A0Someone will
>>>>>> need to let me know (if you care) whether this is readable in a
>>>>>> "real" news reader with fixed width fonts, etc. =A0If it is, I'll
>>>>>> switch my FF addon editor to use Wordpad instead of Notepad.
>>>>>
>>>>>> =A0 =A0Thanks, Ken
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running SLRN in a xterm session.
>>>>>
>>>>> The above is how I see your posting. As you can see it's perfectly
>>>>> readable now.
>>>>>
>>>>> When they last changed the interface, Google changed their newsgroup
>>>>> software so that it no longer inserted line breaks every 70-80
>>>>> characters.
>>>>
>>>> I'm still using their old one.
>>>>
>>>>> I have no idea why they would do such a daft thing.
>>>>
>>>> It's WTICBIRD disease. (We think it's cool, but it's really doofy [or
>>>> dumb] disease.)
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft is full of stuff like this. Microsoft Bob, paper clip guy,
>>>> and so on. Oh, and that stupid drumsticks on a drum while you're
>>>> waiting for something to happen. Talk about lame!
>>>>
>>>> Even Apple is guilty.
>>>>
>>>> Think of Firefox having the oozing tabs. And it's font control panel.
>>>> What a nightmare! And making addresses grayed out except for the
>>>> domain name. Yes, just what I need: a near impossible to read URL.
>>>
>>> This occurred with FF9.
>>
>> FF8. Including the fix below.
>
> When I installed FF8 (not on WEENDOZE), all of my custom configuration
> was maintained.  This FF9, the install COMPLETELY ignored anything that
> I had previously configured.  Thus, like I said, it occurred with FF9.
>
>

I made the "fix" on FF8 first, then installed FF9 and at least *that*
fix was preserved. On Windows, of course. And you are not going to stop
making a fool of yourself with those childish (miss-) spellings, right ?